The mind electric : stories of the strangeness and wonder of our brains
Anand, Pria2025
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A young woman channelling the voice of the Holy Spirit. A mother whose children have been replaced by changelings. A family cursed by a mysterious inability to sleep. Pria Anand's patients come to her with myriad peculiar symptoms, but they all have something in common: their diagnosis always hinges on a story. Her task as a neurologist is akin to a detective's, piecing together the clues in a patient's account with the tells of their body in order to settle on a diagnosis. In her lyrical, passionate and humane first book, Pria Anand shares stories of her own patients alongside her own experiences as a doctor, a mother and a patient, in order to explore all the bizarre ways in which our brains go awry.
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Author:
Anand, Pria, author
Imprint:
London : Virago, 2025.
Collation:
ix, 275 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9780349019109 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
616.8616.8 ANAN
Language:
English
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BRN:
7590825
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